Olga and her tree

These videos of Olga Georgia came to me via her daughter Olivia, who thought that Olga might not fit my demographic unless I counted her vivid imagination. Surely all viewers will agree, however, that this woman is hard at work. She’s 85, and lives next door to Olivia, who shot the video.

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Olga, Olivia wrote me, was an opera singer until she lost a lung to tuberculosis in her twenties. She continued to perform, mostly in community theater, and also worked in community television, “which led to her brief stint in soft-porn. Or as she put it, ‘Exploitation!’” Also, in her 70s, “There was belly dancing for a while.”